I totally understand this post! The only problem I have with booksprees like this is making sure my piles don't topple over. After a while, they get hard to carry ... as you know! Totally worth it, though.

Hey, it's not your pile of books that impresses me, it's that you got them at the Newberry Library. That's the very same Newberry after whom the Newberry Medal for Children's Lit is named. I have read so many Newberry Medal and Honor books because of my work with children in school and public libraries. And I still enjoy picking up new ones to read, even though I've been retired for nigh on 7 years. Loved your haul. And I do hope there were knitting books in the pile.

Am I the only one who squinted at the screen with my head on one side to see what you'd chosen? Guide to gardening? Well, I guess you've got a manure factory in Dolores so you should make the most of it.

I love to read, and I live in an area that has tons of used book stores,.Madison has more book stores per capita then most large cities. Plus the libraries here have booksales, frequently. Poor Delores , what does she read.

I'm with Knitting the Camino - my interest is always peaked by Newberry and book in the same sentence. Except, I have no kid-based reason to love them. I just know from my own childhood that Newberry Award books are the best, and I have no problem reading a great children's book as an adult. Children are so discerning that I find the writing is often better quality than in 'adult' books.

I used to work at the book sales at my public library, and we had several regulars who brought their own large boxes, and one guy who rode a bike, so brought a backpack and several tote bags. He would fill one up, and bring it up to us to hold for him while he filled up the next!

Oooh nice stack of books there - I spy "Mrs Ames" by E F Benson, it's on my "to read" list. Just been republished by Bloomsbury in a set of books called the Bloomsbury Group - http://www.bloomsbury.com/thebloomsburygroup/ I've read a few of them so far and thoroughly recommend them. Also recommend "Miss Buncle's Book" by D.E. Stevenson (a Persephone book), think you'd like it, great social comedy, happy reading!

Thank you - I just moved to the area, and hadn't heard of the Newberry Library. I read your blog before moving, but now, it's even more meaningful when you write about Chicago area activities. Like the other commenters, I have also been known to return from a used book sale with a large stack. Good stuff.

Bags I the loan of the EF Benson when you're done!! When the children were children, I used to think about taking the wagon to our library's book sale - little kids with cash to spend can sure fill up the bags. Hmmm... sort of like big kids....

Franklin, I met another aficionado of your blog at ceili dancing on Wednesday evenings, held at the Dubliner Pub in St Paul. She was waiting for the teacher (as was I), sitting there knitting a beautiful sock. And I looked at it, thought of you, and said, "O, do you read that guy in Chicago with the knitting blog..." and she jumped right in with "...the Panopticon? O yes! Slavishly!" And we both laughed at ourselves for being such woolly nerds....Thank you for your blog. It is always a joy and a delight to read. Even if I only crochet.*smile*

I am horrifically envious of you. Our library does a great job for being a small city, but I really wanted to attend this gig. Unfortunately, not enough vacation time to swing it after coming up a week ago for a long weekend.

DH & I were in Concord (MA) yesteray and not only did we find a great bookstore (he had to drag me away), but we stopped at the Alcott house. Yes, I bought more books there. Including her writings on being a Civil War nurse, and a book on apple pie, and...

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